Former Indiana Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard’s task force looking at the future of legal education financing sees
a “deeply flawed” system, according to a working paper presented at this week’s annual meeting of the American
Bar Association in San Francisco.

A Fulton County man who filed a writ of habeas corpus claiming he was falsely imprisoned won a reversal of a clarified sentencing
order Tuesday, with one Court of Appeals judge saying he should be freed entirely.

A judge last week approved an order clearing the way for Indiana University to transfer $450,000 to a federal court restitution
fund for victims of former personal-injury and wrongful-death attorney William Conour.

An attorney who played an integral role in consolidating the governments of the city of Indianapolis and Marion County, which
made the Hoosier state capital the 11th largest city in the United States, has died.

The Chinese immigrant who tried to kill herself by consuming rat poison and was charged with murder and attempted feticide
days later when her newborn daughter died pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of criminal recklessness, a Class B misdemeanor.

A Chinese immigrant who tried to kill herself by consuming rat poison and was charged with murder and attempted feticide days
later when her newborn daughter died has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of criminal recklessness, a Class B misdemeanor.

Indiana and Texas are the lead authors of an amicus brief filed Friday that asks the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a 2nd Circuit
Court of Appeals ruling banning legislative prayer at the beginning of a government meeting.

Criminal defendants ordered to perform community service work will have to get to their destinations without a ride from the
Marion County Probation Department as the result of a program change adopted Friday.

Using California law, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled that an insurance company does not have to pay for an environmental
cleanup, but the court noted it did not agree with the position of the Golden State and it would have ruled differently if
Indiana law had been applicable.

In overturning the trial court’s ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court compared the case to Poor Richard’s admonition:
“For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe, the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was
lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail.”

The Indiana Court of Appeals granted a rehearing in a wrongful death lawsuit filed against a public school corporation by
the family of a student with Down syndrome who died after choking at school, refining a question to be presented to a jury.

A man convicted of sexual misconduct with a minor will get a new trial after the Indiana Court of Appeals found the prosecutor’s
zealous statements made to a jury during closing arguments deprived the man of a fair trial.

A Nigerian employee who asked his employer for time off work to attend his father’s burial rights and was fired when
he returned is entitled to a day in court, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals held Wednesday.

A majority of nine 7th Circuit Court of Appeals judges narrowly denied rehearing en banc for an Indiana man whose sentence
was erroneously calculated. A dissenting judge called the case a “miscarriage of justice.”